assistant to Wm. Bradley, portrait painter in London; portrait
painter and drawing master at Manchester about 1835; a founder
of Manchester academy of fine arts, president 1864–77;
associate of New Soc. of painters in water-colour 1840, member
1841; exhibited at Royal Manchester institution from 1831, at
Manchester academy of fine arts, and at New Soc. of Painters;
his best known pictures are The Betrothed; Gurth and Wamba; and
Touchstone, Audrey and William. _d._ Barton-upon-Irwell near
Manchester 21 Feb. 1886.
KEENAN, STEPHEN. _b._ Fermanagh, Jany. 1805; ed. at Glasgow, the
R.C. coll. Aberdeen and at Rome; missioner in Edinburgh 1830;
assistant priest Dundee 1839; minister of St. Andrew’s chapel,
Nethergate, Dundee 1847 to death; a public controversialist in
the interest of the R.C. ch.; the pope gave him a D.D. degree
1857; erected churches and schools in Dundee, where he was
a popular preacher among the Irish; author of Controversial
catechism or protestantism refuted and catholicism established
1846, 4 ed. 1874; Catechism of the Christian religion, being
with some changes a compendium of the Catechism of Montpellier
1851. _d._ Dundee 28 Feb. 1862. _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_
(1873) 208–11.
KEENE, ALEXANDER, assumed name of Alexander Findlay). _b._
London 1821; a pugilist; beaten by the Young Greek near Twyford
30 April 1844; beat Wm. Cain £25 a side at Horley 17 Dec. 1846;
beat Joseph Phelps £100 a side, 119 rounds in 2 hours and 45
minutes at Woking Common 9 Sep. 1847; beat Young Sambo (Welsh)
£100 a side at Eight Mile Bottom, Newmarket 20 June 1848; beaten
by Jack Grant £100 a side at Fleetpond 16 Oct. 1849; beat Wm.
Hayes £100 a side 20 Aug. 1850; landlord of the Victoria inn,
Willesden lane near London 1867. _d._ Prince of Wales’ hotel,
Molesey, Surrey 30 Jany. 1881. _Illust. sporting news_, _iii_
497, 504 (1864), 2 _portraits_.
KEENE, CHARLES SAMUEL (son of Samuel Browne Keene, solicitor,
_d._ 1838). _b._ Duval’s lane, Hornsey 10 Aug. 1823; ed.
at Ipswich gr. sch.; apprenticed to Messrs. Whymper, wood
engravers, London 1842–7; worked for the Illustrated London
News and other periodicals from 1847; drew for Punch 1851–90,
also for Punch’s Almanac and Pocket Book; illustrated stories
in Once a Week 1859 and Douglas Jerrold’s Caudle Lectures in
Punch; a most perfect artist in black and white; awarded gold
medal at Paris exhibition 1889; published Our People, from the
collection of Mr. Punch 1881; a large collection of his later
drawings exhibited at Fine Art Society’s rooms, New Bond st.
March 1891; illustrated many books 1860–85. _d._ 112 Hammersmith
road 4 Jany. 1891, portrait by sir George Reid exhibited at
Victoria exhibition 1892. _The Mask_ (1868) 65, _portrait_;
_I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1891 p._ 38, _portrait_, _21 March 1891 p._
375, _portrait_; _Black and White 21 March 1891 pp._ 205, 206,
_portrait_; _Mag. of Art_, _March 1891 pp._ 145–6, _portrait_.
KEENE, EDWIN (youngest son of John Keene). _b._ 1826; wrote
Frances, a tale of Bath, printed in Keane’s Bath Journal, and
contributed to many periodicals in London and Edinburgh; author
of Sydney Fielding, the domestic history of a gentleman who
served under their late majesties George IV. and William IV. 2
vols. 1857. _d._ 7 Kingsmead st. Bath 21 Sep. 1857.
KEENE, HENRY GEORGE (only son of Thomas Keene). _b._ 30 Sep.
1781; cadet Madras army about 1798; entered Madras civil
service Feb. 1801; assistant registrar to the Sudder courts,
Madras; wrote a book in Arabic on law, for which government
awarded him 10,000 rupees; left India 1809, retired from
C.S. 1812; matric. from Sidney Sussex coll. Camb. 13 Nov.
1811, fellow 13 Nov. 1817, 8 senior optime and B.A. 1815;
ordained 1817; contested Arabic professorship at Camb. March
1819; professor of Arabic and Persian at East India college,
Haileybury 1824 to 1834; lived at Tunbridge Wells 1834 to death;
author of Akhlák-i-Mahsini translated from the Persian 1850;
Anwás-i-Suhaili; Persian fables for young and old 1833; Persian
stories 1835; Sermons of rev. W. Sharpe with a memoir 1836. _d._
3 Mount Ephraim road, Tunbridge Wells 29 Jany. 1864.
KEENE, JAMES. _b._ 1796; proprietor of Keene’s Bath Journal to
death, edited it from 1818, supplying nearly all the leaders and
superintending the management till his death; minister of the
New Church (Swedenborgian) denomination; a supporter of the Bath
Athenæum. _d._ 16 Norfolk buildings, Bath 25 Dec. 1875.
KEENE, LAURA (dau. of Mr. Lee and wife of Mr. Taylor). _b._
England 1830; acted at the Lyceum under Madame Vestris; played
Pauline in Lady of Lyons, Olympic theatre Oct. 1851; appeared
as Albina Mandeville in The Will, Wallack’s theatre, New York
20 Sep. 1852; acted in California and Australia 1852–5; opened
Laura Keene’s Varieties theatre, New York 27 Dec. 1855; opened
Laura Keene’s New theatre with As you like it 18 Nov. 1856
and remained lessee till 1868; produced Our American Cousin,
in which E. A. Sothern, Joseph Jefferson and herself appeared
18 Oct. 1858 which ran to 25 March 1859; in England 1868;
starred in America with her own company 1868 to death; edited
Shakespeare’s Play of a Midsummer Night’s dream, with notes
1863; left two daughters by her first husband. _d._ Montclair,
New Jersey 4 Nov. 1873. _J. Jefferson’s Autobiography_ (1890)
183, 489, _portrait_; _Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 202,
_portrait_; _The Era 30 Nov. 1873 p._ 10.
KEENE, RICHARD WYNNE. _b._ Norwich 1810 or 1811; a sculptor;
inventor of Keene’s cement made by saturating plaster of Paris
in small lumps with alum and recalcining it, patented by himself
and J. D. Greenwood 27 Feb. 1838; designer and modeller of the
masks and symbolic properties for the Drury Lane pantomimes
1852–73 under the name of Dykwynkyn; a pensioner on the Dramatic
and musical sick fund from Oct. 1884. _d._ 32 Hanbury road,
Lavender hill, London 28 Nov. 1887. _bur._ Woking. _Belgravia_,
_i_ 359–64 (1867).
KEHOE, LAWRANCE. _b._ parish of Litter, Wexford 24 July 1832;
editor and publisher of New York Tablet 1857–65; founded the
Catholic publication society co. 1865 and was manager to his
death; manager of the Catholic World; edited The complete works
of J. Hughes, archbishop of New York 1866. _d._ Brooklyn, New
York 27 Feb. 1890. _The Tablet 22 March 1890 p._ 473.
KEIGHTLEY, JOHN. _b._ 1778; lieut. 57 foot 22 July 1795; major
23 foot 25 July 1816 to 16 Oct. 1823 when placed on half pay;
lieut. col. 11 foot 2 June 1825 to 29 May 1835; resident
governor of Santa Maura; lieut. col. 35 foot 29 May 1835 to 17
June 1836 when he sold out; resident governor of Zante. _d._
Pickhill hall near Wrexham 6 Sep. 1852.
KEIGHTLEY, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Keightley of Newtown,
Kildare). _b._ Dublin 17 Oct. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1808; came to London 1824 and became a journalist; granted
civil list pension of £100, 31 Jany. 1855; author of The fairy
mythology 2 vols. 1828, anon., another ed. 1850; Outlines of
history 1829; History of the war of independence in Greece 2
vols. 1830; The mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy 1832,
2 ed. 1834; Tales and popular fictions 1834; The history of
England 2 vols. 1837–9, three editions; The history of Greece
1835, 3 ed. 1839; The Crusaders 2 vols. 1834; Secret societies
of the Middle Ages 1837; edited the Bucolics and Georgics 1847;
The poems of John Milton, with notes 2 vols. 1859; The plays and
poems of William Shakespeare 6 vols. 1864. _d._ Hartwell lodge,
Lessness Heath near Erith, Kent 4 Nov. 1872. _bur._ Erith. _C.
R. Smith’s Retrospections_, _i_ 322 (1883); _I.L.N. lxi_ 479
(1872).
KEILLER, JAMES M. Confectioner and maker of preserves at Dundee;
commenced producing Seville orange marmalade, the first to make
it as an article of commerce, its use spread to England and it
is now sent all over the world; the marmalade season lasts from
Dec. to March, the candied peel season is from March to June,
and the jam fruit season begins in June; maker also of lozenges,
comfits, candies and gum goods; gave £10,500 to clear off the
debt on Dundee free library 1885. _Bremner’s Industries of
Scotland_ (1869) 466–72; _Dundee Year Book_ (1886) _p._ 5.
KEITH, ALEXANDER (son of George Skene Keith, D.D. 1752–1823).
_b._ manse of Keith hall, Aberdeenshire 30 Nov. 1791; ed. at
Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen, B.A. 1809, D.D. 1833;
minister of St. Cyrus parish, Forfarshire 1816, resigned 1840;
one of a deputation to Palestine with rev. Robert McCheyne, rev.
A. Bonnar and rev. A. Black to enquire into state of the Jews
described in Narrative of Mission to the Jews 1839, revisited
Palestine 1844 and was the first to take daguerrotype views of
places in Syria; one of founders of Free church of Scotland
1843, declined the moderatorship repeatedly on account of
his health; author of Evidence of the truth of the Christian
religion derived from the fulfilment of prophecy 1828, 40 ed.
1873, translated into many foreign languages; The signs of the
times as denoted by the fulfilment of historical predictions
2 vols. 1832, 8 ed. 1847; The harmony of prophecy 1851; The
history and destiny of the world and of the church 1861. _d._
Aberdeen house 56 West st. Buxton, where he had resided for
some years, 8 Feb. 1880. _bur._ Chinley, Chapel-en-le-Frith,
Derbyshire 12 Feb. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 331–8,
_portrait_; _H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticaniæ_, _iii_, _pt.
ii_, 585, 865 (1871).
KEITH, HESTER MARIA, viscountess Keith (eld. dau. of Henry
Thrale, brewer, _d._ 1781). _b._ 1762; from 1765 Dr. Johnson
called her Queenie, wrote verses for her and directed her
education; by death of her only brother 1776 she became a
rich heiress; greatly disapproved of her mother’s marriage to
Piozzi; a considerable scholar in history, poetry, Hebrew and
mathematics; refused Samuel Rogers the poet. (_m._ 10 Jany.
1808 at Ramsgate, George Keith Elphinstone, admiral, _b._ 7
Jany. 1746, cr. viscount Keith 1 June 1814, _d._ 10 March 1823);
one of the patronesses of Almack’s 1808; a prominent leader
of society in London and Edinburgh 1814–50; she was the last
survivor of the persons who are mentioned in Boswell’s Johnson.
_d._ 110 Piccadilly, London 31 March 1857. _Willis’ Current
Notes_ 1857 _p._ 29; _G.M. ii_ 615–6 (1857).
KEITH, MARGARET MERCER ELPHINSTONE, Baroness Keith (eld. dau. of
George Keith Elphinstone, admiral, viscount Keith 1746–1823).
_b._ Hertford st. Mayfair, London 12 June 1788; styled hon.
Margaret Elphinstone 1797–1817; was in the household of the
princess Charlotte. (_m._ 20 June 1817 at Edinburgh, Augustus
Charles Joseph, count de Flahault de la Billardrie, French
ambassador to London 1860, _d._ 2 Sep. 1870 aged 85); baroness
Keith of Stonehaven Marishal and baroness Keith of Banheath on
death of her father 10 March 1823; baroness Nairne on the death
of her cousin William 4 lord Nairne 7 Dec. 1837; styled baroness
Nairne and Keith 1837 to death. _d._ at palace of the legion of
honour, Paris 11 Nov. 1867.
KEITH-FALCONER, ION GRANT NEVILLE (3 son of 9 Earl of Kintore).
_b._ Edinburgh 5 July 1856; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1878; Tyrwhitt univ. Hebrew scholar; defeated John Keen
by five yards in a two-mile bicycle race at Cambridge 11 May
1878; rode 50 miles in 2 hours and 44 minutes at Crystal palace,
beating the record 9 July 1882; rode from Land’s End to John o’
Groat’s House 994 miles in 13 days, June 1882; Hebrew lecturer
at Clare college, Camb.; missionary of Free church of Scotland
26 May 1886; lord almoner’s professor of Arabic at Camb. 1886
to death, gave 3 lectures on the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Nov.;
arrived at Aden 8 Dec. 1886; began to build a permanent home for
a mission at Shaikh Othman near Aden, attacked by Aden fever
Feb. 1887. _d._ Shaikh Othman 11 May 1887. _bur._ Aden cemetery.
_R. Sinker’s Memorials of Ion Keith-Falconer_ (1888); _Sporting
Mirror_, _iv_ 49–52 (1882), _portrait_.
KEKEWICH, GEORGE GRANVILLE (1 son of George Kekewich of
Dartmouth). _b._ 1802; ed. at Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A.
1827; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1827; judge of county courts
circuit 60 (Cornwall), March 1847 to death. _d._ Exeter 7 Jany.
1857.
KEKEWICH, SAMUEL TREHAWKE (son of Samuel Kekewich, D.C.L., _d._
26 Aug. 1822). _b._ Bowden house near Totnes, Devon 31 Oct.
1796; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 27 Oct. 1814; M.P.
Exeter 1826–30; M.P. South Devon 1858 to death; sheriff of Devon
1834. _d._ Peamore near Exeter 1 June 1873.
KELAART, EDWARD FREDERICK. _b._ Ceylon 1818 or 1819; assistant
surgeon in army 16 July 1841, surgeon 16 July 1852 to death;
F.G.S. 1845; author of Flora Calpensis, contributions to
the flora and topography of Gibraltar 1846; Prodromus faunæ
Zeylanicæ, being contributions to the zoology of Ceylon 1852–54;
Introductory report on the natural history of the pearl oyster
of Ceylon 1857; Contributions to marine zoology, descriptions of
Ceylon nudibranchiate mollusca, sea anemones and entozoa 1859.
_d._ on board the Ripon on the evening before her arrival at
Southampton 31 Aug. 1860. _Proc. of Linnean soc._ (1861) _p._ 41.
KELK, JOHN. _b._ 1798; a student at Leyden 30 Sep. 1822 and M.D.
1824; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1860; author of Dissertatio de sylphide.
Leyden 1824; The Scarborough spa, its analysis and medical use,
to which is added On the utility of the bath 1841, 4 ed. 1860.
_d._ 1 Brunswick ter. Scarborough 3 May 1873.
KELK, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (3 son of John Kelk of London
1781–1848). _b._ London 16 Feb. 1816; apprentice to Thomas
Cubitt, builder; partner with Mr. Newton as builders 12 Margaret
st. Cavendish sq. till 1845; contractor for railway and other
works, being at times associated with Brassey, Peto and Betts
and others; agent for the commissioners of the Great Exhibition
of 1851 in purchasing the Gore house estate; gave £15,000
towards debt on Great Exhibition of 1862, which he and Mr. Lucas
erected; constructed the Albert memorial without pecuniary
benefit 1864; with Messrs. Aird made the Millwall docks 1868;
built the Victoria station and Pimlico railway 1858–60;
constructed works on the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District
railways 1860–71; built Smithfield goods depôt and meat market
1866–9; erected with Mr. Lucas the Alexandra palace, opened 22
May 1873, burnt 9 June 1873, re-erected it and lost much money
in the undertaking, it was reopened 1 May 1875; M.P. Harwich
1865–8; A.I.C.E. 5 Feb. 1861; cr. baronet 1 May 1874; sheriff
of co. Southampton 1884. _d._ 12 Sep. 1886. _Min. of Proc. of
I.C.E. lxxxvii_ 451–5 (1886); _I.L.N. May 1862 pp._ 479, 481,
_portrait_; _Law Reports. Chancery Division_, _xxvi_ 107–54
(1884).
KELKE, WILLIAM HASTINGS. Ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1828; R.
of Osgathorpe, Leics. 1836–40; R. of Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks.
1840–60; author of Notices of sepulchral monuments in English
churches 1850; Britain’s ancient church and Rome’s usurpations
1851; The churchyard manual, with designs for memorials 1851;
Family prayers 1854. _d._ Little Missenden, Bucks. 12 April 1865.
KELL, EDMUND (son of a unitarian minister). _b._ Wareham 18
Jany. 1799; ed. at Glasgow 1815, M.A. 1819, and at Manchester
New coll. York; unitarian minister Newport, Isle of Wight
1823–53, where he also kept a school; hon. sec. Unitarian
societies of South of England; minister at Southampton 1853 to
death; the first to draw public attention to the Roman remains
in the Isle of Wight; F.S.A.; author of An earnest appeal
to unitarian christians on the duty of supporting their own
religious institutions 2 ed. 1848; What patriotism, justice
and christianity demand for India, a sermon 1857, 4 ed. 1858;
Shall christians seek to build up a faith with the weapons of
misrepresentation. Controversy between Dr. Cumming and rev. E.
Kell 1858. _d._ Southampton 17 Jany. 1874. _Memorials of rev. E.
Kell_ (1875); _Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xxxi_ 230–31.
KELLAND, PHILIP (son of Philip Kelland, R. of Dunster,
Somerset). _b._ Dunster 1808; ed. Queen’s coll. Camb., senior
wrangler and Smith’s prizeman 1834; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; tutor
of his college; professor of mathematics in univ. of Edinb. 19
Oct. 1838 to death, secretary of the Senatus Academicus till
1867; F.R.S. 6 Dec. 1838; F.R.S. Edinb. 1839, president Nov.
1878 to death; pres. of Society of arts 1853–54; one of founders
of Life association of Scotland; wrote the article Algebra, in 9
ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica; author of Theory of heat 1837;
The elements of algebra 1839, 3 ed. 1861; How to improve the
Scottish universities, a lecture 1855; Transatlantic sketches
1858; with P. G. Tait, Introduction to quaternions 1873. _d._
Bridge of Allan 7 May 1879. _Sir A. Grant’s Story of univ. of
Edinb. ii_ 304–305 (1884); _Proc. of R.S. of Edinb. x_ 208, 211,
321–29 (1880); _Proc. of R.S. xxix pp. vii–x_ (1879).
KELLETT, SIR HENRY (son of John Dalton Kellett of Clonacody, co.
Tipperary). _b._ 2 Nov. 1806; entered R.N. 7 Jany. 1822; in the
Eden employed in scheme for colonising Fernando Po 1827; lieut.
in Ætna surveying vessel 1831–5; in Starling cutter in war in
Canton river; capt. 23 Dec. 1842; C.B. 24 Dec. 1832, K.C.B. 2
June 1869; in the Herald co-operated in Behring’s Straits with
Franklin search expedition 1848–50; commander of the Resolute
in search for sir John Franklin 1852, the ship abandoned by sir
E. Belcher’s orders 15 May 1854, the Resolute was found by the
Americans, refitted and sent to England as a present to the
queen and people of Great Britain 12 Dec. 1856; commodore at
Jamaica 1855–9; superintendent Malta dockyard 26 Nov. 1864 to 16
April 1868; retired V.A. 8 April 1868; commander in chief China
1869–71. _d._ Clonacody house, Tipperary 1 March 1875. _Seeman’s
Narrative of voyage of H.M.S. Herald 2 vols._ (1853); _G. F.
Mc. Dougall’s Eventful voyage of H.M. discovery ship Resolute_
(1857).
KELLETT, SIR RICHARD, 1 Baronet (son of Richard Kellett,
alderman of Cork, _d._ 25 Jany. 1828 aged 95). _b._ Cork 16 May
1761; created baronet 6 Aug. 1801; of Lota co. and city of Cork.
_d._ 5 Mespil parade, Dublin 1853.
KELLIE, WALTER CONINGSBY ERSKINE, 12 Earl of (2 son of Henry
David Erskine 1776–1846). _b._ Warkworth, Northumberland 12 July
1810; ed. at Durham gr. school and univ. of Edinb.; entered
Bengal army 1827; served in and had medals for Sutlej campaign;
commissioner of Jubbulpore during the mutiny 1857; retired
lieut. col. 25 Sep. 1861; C.B. 18 May 1860; succeeded his cousin
as 12 earl of Kellie 19 June 1866; Scotch representative peer 8
July 1869 to death; claimed earldom of Mar 1867 but died before
the decision. _d._ Cannes 15 Jany. 1872.
KELLNER, SIR GEORGE WELSH (son of Francis Daniel Kellner). _b._
1825; entered service of H.E.I.C. 1841; inspector general of
accounts 1866–70; military accountant general of India 1871–7;
financial commissioner and member of council in Cyprus 1878;
assist. paymaster general in chancery Feb. 1884 to death; C.S.I.
1 Jany. 1877; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1879. _d._ 46 Pembridge villas,
Bayswater, London 10 June 1886.
KELLY, ANN. _b._ 1749; of a theatrical family; acted in many
theatres in England, Ireland and Scotland; played with Edmund
Kean and James Sheridan Knowles; frequently played Alicia to
the Jane Shore of Mrs. Siddons; became deaf and left the stage
1809; J. S. Knowles befriended her from that time till her
death; twice married to persons called Kelly. _d._ Lewisham,
Kent 15 March 1852 aged 103. _bur._ Sydenham on Good Friday.
KELLY, BENEDICTUS MARWOOD (2 son of Benedictus Marwood Kelly of
Holsworthy, Devon, attorney, _d._ 1836). _b._ Holsworthy 1 Sep.
1790; entered navy 19 Oct. 1798; wounded in a boat attack on the
French in the island of Elba 1801; captain 19 July 1821; admiral
on half pay 27 April 1863. _d._ Saltford house, Bath 26 Sep.
1867.
NOTE.--He left by his will a sum of £200,000 for Kelly college, which
was built close to Tavistock and opened Sep. 1877, the endowments are
devoted to education of the founder’s kin and of the orphan sons of
naval officers, but there is also full provision for a first-grade
public school.
KELLY, BERNARD (son of Peter Kelly, grocer and owner of
potteries). _b._ Ballyshannon, co. Donegal; in business with
his father; sec. to local branch of National League; M.P. South
Donegal, Dec. 1885 to death. _d._ Mountcharles, co. Donegal 1
Jany. 1887.
KELLY, CHARLES, stage name of Charles Clavering Wardell (son
of rev. Henry Wardell, R. of Winlaton, Durham). _b._ Newcastle
1839; made first public appearance at T.R. Hull as Montano in
Othello 1868; played in Halliday’s The great city, at Surrey
theatre 1869, and in Tom Taylor’s Arkwright’s Wife as Richard
Arkwright, at Globe theatre 6 Oct. 1873; acted Samuel Brown
in New Men and Old Acres, Court theatre 2 Dec. 1875 which was
played 250 times; played Darnley in Lord Lytton’s House of
Darnley, at Court theatre 6 Oct. 1877, and Robert L’Estrange in
Bondage, Opera Comique 31 March 1883; his characteristic was his
ability to indicate strong emotion without obtrusive display;
made his final appearance at a complimentary benefit given to
him at Prince’s theatre 16 July 1883. (_m._ at St. Phillip’s
ch. South Kensington 21 Nov. 1877 Ellen Terry dau. of Benjamin
Terry); Kelly’s first wife Anne Maria _d._ 7 Nov. 1875. He _d._
of apoplexy 27 Bedford place, London 17 April 1885. _C. E.
Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 229–31.
KELLY, DAVID. _b._ Manchester 1821; in employment of George
Simms, bookseller, Exchange st. Manchester (the founder of firm
of Simms and Dinham) till 1851; bookseller in partnership with
Edwin Slater 1851 and then on his own account in Market st.;
became acquainted with Edwin Waugh 1852 and was instrumental in
the publication of Waugh’s Lancashire sketches 1855; published
many of Waughs’ poems on cards 1856 etc. which had immense
circulation; furnished some information to Procter’s Memorials
of Manchester streets 1874. _d._ Brunswick st. Stretford near
Manchester 2 Nov. 1891.
KELLY, DENNIS (eld. son of James Kelly). _b._ 1804 or 1805; ed.
at Dundalk and at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825; C. of Crewe
to 1832; V. of Killyon and Kilronan 1832–4; C. of St. John’s,
Chatham 1834–6; C. of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 1836–8; P.C.
of Trinity ch. Gough sq. Fleet st. London on its consecration
June 1838 to death; contributed 250 essays to Church of England
Magazine; author of Practical Sermons 1836, 2 ed. 1837; Sabbath
evening readings, 1st series 1835, 22 ed. 1845, 2nd series
1842–3, the two series complete 1 vol. 1853; Self inspection
1845; Characters 1846; Neophilus or moral reflections 1846. _d._
5 New Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 14 Nov. 1866. _D. Kelly’s
Posthumous Sermons_ (1867), _memoir pp. vii–xv_.
KELLY, EDWARD (eld. son of John Kelly of Belfast, afterwards
a convict in Tasmania, who _d._ Victoria 1865). _b._ Victoria
1854; imprisoned 3 years for horse-stealing; shot a constable at
his house near Greta, April 1878; bushranger in Australia with
his brothers James and Daniel and two men called Byrne and Hart
from 1878 to death, Victoria and New South Wales governments
jointly offered a reward of £8000 for their apprehension; robbed
the bank of Euroa, Victoria of £3000, 11 Dec. 1878; held the
town of Jerilderie, New South Wales for 2 days and robbed the
bank of about £700, Feb. 1879; they wore iron plates weighing
nearly 100 lb. each, they were killed near Beechworth 27 June
1880 except Edward Kelly who was tried at Beechworth, convicted
Oct. 1880 and hanged there 11 Nov. _F. A. Hare’s Last of the
Bushrangers_ (1891), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxvii_ 252 (1880),
_portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxii_ 225 (1880), _portrait_.
KELLY, EDWARD. _b._ 26 April 1836; entered navy 1850; first
lieut. of Bombay 67 guns, destroyed by fire off Montevideo 14
Dec. 1864; captain 22 Oct. 1870; commanded Achilles during
Egyptian war 1882; A.D.C. to the Queen 1885–7; captain
superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 1 Jany. 1886 to 10 June
1887; R.A. 10 June 1887; admiral superintendent of Chatham
dockyard 1 Nov. 1887 to death. _d._ of influenza at Admiralty
house, Chatham dockyard 17 Jany. 1892. _bur._ Rochester
cathedral cemetery.